Osteria Al 15

A short walk from the city center, so less touristy. Food was classic Bolognese, with okay taste and quality.

We stumbled upon this fabulous restaurant after a few others in the neighborhood were full and we had no reservations. The service here was friendly, the forgave my horrible Italian and we understood each other just fine. We ordered only vegetarian items and all were absolutely delicious, as was the house sparkling wine (which tasted very much like pignoletto)! I am particularly fond of the homemade tigella. The prices here were half what they were near Piazza Maggiore and the experience was way more authentic.

The restaurant is tucked away on a small back street, in a residential neighbourhood, but well worth the hunt. Family restaurant with friendly staff, fitted me in when the restaurant was fully booked. Amazing homemade pasta and good wine local wine. Highly recommend if you are in Bologna.

If you are too much such as birthday table, don’t make the menu of the restaurant, is cheaper if everybody order his stuffs. The wine is cheap, 8€ one bottle of good red wine. The food is nothing special, but home made pasta and other things, great level altough. The dessert was very cheap and tasty. Staff really nice and polite. Their ”tigelle” are fake .

One of the worst restaurant experiences in Europe. This place is off the beaten track and had really great reviews. I booked about 3 weeks in advance. Twice we tried to enter the restaurant and this person would just keep saying no no no to us. I tried to tell him we had reservations but it was quite a bad start. Finally when we managed to get in, the restaurant os definitely very cramped and there is barely any space. They have tried to go for a vintage vibe but everything looks dusty. Also, no one checked anyone's green pass which is required at the time we visited Bologna which was again a red flag. Not sure why they didn't do this and since they have fixed meal timings I saw everyone come in and not a single person was checked. Then begins the rest of it, we obviously spoke English which they knew while we were making the reservation however the server who was trying to serve us did not speak English at all and neither did the person who knew English try to help us. This wasn't a small or cheap restaurant by any means so I was quite surprised since we had by now already visited several places and didn't get this treatment. Thus, I would definitely tell non Italian speakers to completely avoid this place. Then we placed our orders and we ordered the appetisers and main course. The main course on the menu said vegetarian spaghetti and vegetarian lasagne which is what we ordered. First for a place with fixed serving timing and seating times...the food topk forever to come! It was I think even longer than 40 to 45 minutes! Post that the server served me the spaghetti and my husband the lasagne. It looked funny to me and I did ask him if it is vegetarian. But I could smell some kind of meat. I asked him again and then he said they didn't have the vegetarian. I mean the server could have told me that to.begin with. So again took a while to finally get a vegetarian lasagne. As for the food it is pricey and much better retsuatnts out there. It was not at all good. I barely had half and both me and my husband felt sick the whole day. Now let me tell you the annoying thing right? After all thos terrible service, we just decided to leave after my husband ordered the tiramisu which was also very sub standard and I would recommend you eat somewhere else in Bologna. They charged us 10 % service charge for such pathetic service! So my opinion to everyone would be, if you are a visitor who is not from Italy! Give this place a miss! I completely regret having planned this meal and I just don't understand how this place is so highly rated. We visited numerous other places which were not the usual tourist haunts but were so good!

Very nice place... Oldfushion style with historical experiences. I really liked the food and their barrel wine.

Historical Osteria in Bologna. Great menu, very authentic. Food was super good, service was fast and professional, and prices were more than acceptable, recommended!

The food was really good, I would for sure recommend the Tagliata - one of the best in the city. We also appreciated the option of Bis di primi which allows to taste more than one type of pasta. After the dinner it’s worth ordering the Mascarpone which is amazing.